Nueva canción
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Nueva Canción (Spanish for 'new song') was a movement in Latin American music that emerged in the mid-1960s, taking root in South America, especially Chile and other Andean countries. It combined traditional Latin American folk music idioms with progressive and often politicized lyrics. It would gain great popularity throughout Latin America.
[edit] Characteristics
"La Nueva Canción" is a type of protest song. Its lyrics charactaristically talk about poverty, empowerment, the Unidad Popular, imperialism, and democracy.
The '73 Chilean coup impacted the genre's growth in Chile, the country where it was most popular, because the whole musical movement was forced to go underground. During the days of the coup, Victor Jara, a well known singer, songwriter and maybe the most popular figure of Nueva Canción, was tortured and killed by the new rightist military regime. Other groups, such as Inti-Illimani and Quilapayún found safety outside the country. The military government under General Pinochet ruled until 1989 and went as far as to ban many traditional Andean instruments, in order to suppress the Nueva Canción movement.fact Following the deposition of Pinochet, the national soccer stadium in Santiago de Chile where Victor Jara was murdered bears his name.
Most songs feature the guitar, and often the quena, zampoña, charango or cajón. The lyrics are typically in Spanish, with some indigenous or local words mixed in.
While Chile has produced the largest number of Nueva Canción artists, its popularity has been great in almost all Spanish speaking Latin American countries, and it enjoyed some popularity in Spain during the 1970s.
[edit] History
Nueva canción largely draws upon Andean music, Música negra, Spanish music, Cuban music and other Latin American folkore. The most important source for nueva canción, however, is Chilean cueca, a rural song-form.
Its legacy is also vigent in latin pop music. Artists like Franco de Vita, Juan Luis Guerra and Ricardo Arjona has taken La Nueva Canción as an influence to their music mixing with their personal styles.
[edit] Musicians
[edit] Nueva Canción: Argentina
- Mercedes Sosa
- Atahualpa Yupanqui
- Piero_de'_Medici
- Leon Gieco
- Victor Heredia
- Pedro Aznar
[edit] Nueva Canción: Brazil
[edit] Nueva Canción: Uruguay
[edit] Nueva Canción: Chile
- Ángel Parra
- Patricio Manns
- Héctor Pavez
- Horacio Salinas
- Los Jaivas
- Isabel Parra
- Sergio Ortega
- Víctor Jara
- Violeta Parra
- Inti-Illimani
- Quilapayún
- Julio Numhauser
- Rolando Alarcon
- Osvaldo "Gitano" Rodriguez
- Aparcoa
- Tiempo Nuevo
- Illapu
- Francisco Villa
- Jose Séves
[edit] Nueva Trova: Cuba
- Silvio Rodríguez
- Pablo Milanés
- Carlos Puebla
- Sara González
- Noel Nicola
- Vicente Feliú
- Carlos Varela
- Augusto Blanca
[edit] Nueva Canción: El Salvador
- Cutumay Camones
- Banda Tepehuani
- Yolocamba Ita
- Los Torogoces
[edit] Nueva Canción: Nicaragua
- Pancasán
- Grupo Mancotal
- Luis Enríque Mejía Godoy
- Carlos Mejía Godoy
- Guardabarranco
[edit] Canto Nuevo: México
- Alejandro Filio
- Fernando Delgadillo
- Gabino Palomares
- Amparo Ochoa
- Mexicanto
[edit] Nueva Canción: Venezuela
- Ali Primera
- Soledad Bravo
- Los Guaraguao
[edit] Nueva Canción: Paraguay
- Horacio Guarani
[edit] Nueva Canción: Canary Islands
- Pedro Guerra
- Taburiente
- Taller Canario
- Caco Senante
